I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.